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• Thinkpad 560
  The Thinkpad 560 came out in 1996, two years before the Pedion, and also had a 12 inch screen and full-size keyboard and was 1.2 inches thick and weighed ~4lbs. I believe the Thinkpad 560 was an earlier ancestor to modern subnotebooks, which includes the current Thinkpad X61s.
  
  From the article:
  "Although the Pedion died a quick, ugly death, some of the ideas behind it linger on, and one of those ideas is the thin notebook with a medium-size screen. Back then, most mini-notebooks came with small screens and keyboards. The Pedion had a 12-inch screen, big for the time, and a relatively normal-size keyboard. In other words, it had normal X and Y dimensions, but a small Z. The formula has been popular ever since."
  
  The Thinkpad 560 had all of these attributes two years earlier. In reply to: "MacBook Air: Not the thinnest notebook ever"

  January 16, 2008

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